Perry's brain freeze

Rick Perry just had a bizarre brain freeze where he couldn't name the third agency he would want to cut as part of his revamp of the federal government.

Mitt Romney volunteered the EPA, which Perry nodded at and said needs to be remade.

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But that wasn't it. He tried again, and couldn't get there.

“I would do away with Education, the – Commerce and, let’s see, I can’t. The third one I can’t."

The reaction on Twitter to Perry's bad moment has been dramatic, to put it mildly. And for someone who needed a good debate to wipe away bad impressions of things he said at prior ones, not being able to recall words at all wasn't what his supporters had in mind.